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Frankly, you can't have driven in places that use roundabouts much, because in practice these are not problems. Asymmetric flow isn't a problem if there are occ

Frankly, you can't have driven in places that use roundabouts much, because in practice these are not problems. Asymmetric flow isn't a problem if there are occasional vehicles which force the dominant flow to give way. In rare situations it is beneficial to put a traffic light on the dominant flow entrance to break it up. Blocked exits are rarely a problem for other exits on multilane roundabouts, and rarely more of a problem that blocking the box on an intersection with lights -- it's all about the attitude of drivers. "Wear in tired from taking a circular path" -- is this supposed to be satire?

toast0 5y ago
> Frankly, you can't have driven in places that use roundabouts much, because in practice these are not problems. Asymmetric flow isn't a problem if there are occasional vehicles which force the dominant flow to give way. It may not be 'a problem', but it does add delay, and it ruins the narrative of better in all conditions. And it happens fairly frequently at the circle I transit most often. There's a car ferry, and when people drive off of that and eventually through this circle, there are directions they don't want to go, and if you're coming from one of those, you just have to sit and wait. And you wait much longer than a light would have you wait, and it takes the people coming from the ferry longer too. > "Wear in tired from taking a circular path" -- is this supposed to be satire? It's minimal, but so is the brake wear people point out as a benefit of doing something better than a 4-way stop.